Dr. Andre will be presenting the keynote address "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: When Technology and Ergonomics Collide" at the Berkeley COEH Continuing Education Program's Summer Institute on July 31, 2013...

The 2014 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Leading the Way is now accepting proposals! Call for Proposals...

IAA opens a second usability testing facility!
Located just a few blocks away from our current facility in Saratoga, CA, our new facility will house a second custom testing lab, purpose built for human factors studies and their unique needs...

Dr. Andre will speak as an invited panelist on "FDA Human Factors Compliance"at the American Society for Quality Usability Event, taking place on March 21, 2013...

Dr. Andre organizes and moderates FDA Human Factors Panel at the 2013 HFES International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. Tony Watson, Ron Kaye and Molly Story participated in the session, which covered the history of the FDA human factors team, an update on the human factors draft guidance and a review of the new draft guidance on medical devices for home health care...

Dr. Andre presented a plenary session address at the PDA's 2012 "Universe of Pre filled Syringes and Injection Devices" Conference in Las Vegas, NV on October 16,2012. Dr. Andre shared the stage with Kathy Lee, of the FDA. His address, entitled "The Human Factors Top 10 List", discussed the top 10 most critical mistakes made by drug delivery device and biopharma companies when attempting to obtain FDA Human Factors approval for a combination product...

Dr. Anthony Andre is elected as Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Recognition of this honor will be made on Tuesday, October 23, at the Opening Plenary Session of the 2012 HFES Annual Meeting in Boston, MA...

Dr. Andre to host and chair the 2013 HFES Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care! The Symposium, titled "Advancing the Cause" will be held March 11-13, 2013, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland....

Dr. Andre presents opening plenary address at the 2012 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care. The symposium was created, organized and chaired by Dr. Andre, in coordination with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of which he is the Immediate Past President. The symposium, held March 12-14 in Baltimore, was attended by 450 human factors professionals, health care industry representatives, health care provides and regulatory personnel...

IAA/Usernomics has moved our offices and research facility a short distance to the prestigious city of Saratoga, CA. We have built a new custom usability testing facility and welcome the change of venue after 19 years in Cupertino, CA. Click here for pictures of Dr. Andre during the construction of our new lab!...

IAA conducts comprehensive AED/CPR study in France. Read the recent whitepaper to find out which AEDs passed and which failed!...

Dr. Andre presents "Put Down that Workstation! How Software Usability and Expertise IS Office Ergonomics" as an Invited Speaker of the Bay Area Ergonomics Roundtable, held at the "We've Got your Back!" store in Los Gatos, CA May 18, 2011...

IAA helped incorporate ergonomics properties into the new Meglio handle/holder for the iPad. The design serves several common use cases and provides a flexible number of ways to hold, manipulate or stand the device...

Dr. Andre is quoted in recent blog discussing the user experience challenges associated with the recent trend of more complex applications used on mobile devices...

Comparative usability evaluation A series of studies where large numbers of professional usability teams evaluated the same website or Windows program. Usability.gov.

Conducting and using usability tests A good set of steps for conduction a usability test plus links to more articles. Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC), Shawn Lawton Henry and Mary Martinson Grossnickle.

Cost of User Testing a Website It takes 39 hours to usability test a website the first time you try. This time estimate includes planning the test, defining test tasks, recruiting test users, conducting a test with five users, analyzing the results, and writing the report. Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen.

Experience remote usability testing, Part 1 A context for remote usability testing by detailing and describing the benefits and pitfalls of remote usability evaluations and the application-sharing tools that were evaluated. IBM, Velda Bartek and Deane Cheatham.

Eyetracking studies: usability holy grail? Eye-tracking, while valuable, doesn't make usability testing any more powerful. It's what you do with the observations and the usability test data that counts. Demistifying Usability, Frank Spiller.

Fly on the wall The "Fly on the Wall" (FOTW) technique is a low-cost, low-overhead method of collecting valid customer data. IBM, Eyitope St. Matthew-Daniel and Robert J. Kamper.

Formal usability reports vs quick findings Formal reports are the most common way of documenting usability studies, but informal reports are faster to produce and are often a better choice. Alert Box, Jakob Nielsen.

Measuring online experience: it's about more than time In order to obtain a more robust measure of Internet use, researchers may want to consider how and what users think, feel, and do online when they assess level of experience. This article explores each of these areas and present a new measure of measuring online experience. Usability News, Bonnie Lida Rogers.

One-Day Usability Testing 80 percent of what you would learn from these studies can be gained in less than a day. Search Engine Watch, Aaron Hurst.

Planning usability testing for accessibility This paper discusses "How many participants with disabilities should be included in usability testing?" and "What characteristics should they have?" The Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC).

Test Your Designs - on People! How can you know that the design you've stressed over for so long is appropriate? Feedback is one way - paying attention to the email you get from people who take the time to write. But a more powerful solution is actually watching people use your site. Webmonkey, Jeffrey Veen.

Time budgets for usability sessions Up to 40% of precious testing time is wasted while users engage in nonessential activities. Far better to focus on watching users perform tasks with the target interface design. Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen.

UI guidelines vs usability testing This paper defines UI guidelines and describes the problems inherent in only following guidelines, as well as the danger in being too focused on consistency in your design. Microsoft Corporation.

What's in a number? Whereas 7 (plus or minus 2) is the mantra for structured writing and other methods for organizing information, 5 (plus or minus 2) is the mantra for the number of participants needed in a usability test. STC Usability, Carol M. Barnum.

Why ask "why" in a usability evaluation In this evaluation of a University web site, users were asked to attempt tasks and at each step were instructed to indicate not only what action they intended perform, but why that particular action seemed appropriate. UPA, Larry Wood.

Why you don't need a usability lab To simulate a normal office environment, and find out how real users are experiencing your site. If that's the goal, then here's a modest suggestion: why not use your participants' actual office environments? Sitepoint, Elizabeth Neal.

Why you only need to test with 5 users Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford. Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen.

Why You Need to Test Your Web Site with Real Users Consultants, marketing and Web development people have their own biased views of what users want or need. But only users can really tell you whether your site meets their requirements. WebReference, Lois Wakeman.

Why User Testing Is Good You have to find out what your customers want before you finish your product. In fact, the earlier you find out what people want, the better. Webmonkey, Mike Kuniavsky.